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Q: Grails SpringSecurityFacebook plugin DefaultFacebookAuthDao error I am using Grails 2.0.4. With the application I want to add facebook authentication to access my application. I already have Spring Security plugin installed for the current Grails version and it is working fine. I want to scale it to have access from facebook users as well. For that I've installed SpringSecurityFacebook plugin. SpringSecurityCore plugin version is 1.2.7.2 & SpringSecurityFacebook plugin version is 0.15.
With SpringSecurityCore plugin I've configured domain classes for User & Role which are User.groovy & UserRole.groovy respectively. I've let SpringSecurityCore plugin to create joining class for User & UserRole class, so it has created a database table user_authorities. Now here comes a problem with SpringSecurityFacebook plugin. When I run the application with both of these plugin installed, it states that SpringSecurityCore plugin configured successfully and SpringSecurityFacebook plugin configured successfully. And after that it fires an error which is mentioned below.
ERROR facebook.DefaultFacebookAuthDao  - Can't find authority join class (PersonAuthority). Please configure 'grails.plugins.springsecurity.userLookup.authorityJoinClassName' value, or create your own 'List<GrantedAuthority> facebookAuthService.getRoles(user)'
ERROR facebook.DefaultFacebookAuthDao  - UserDetailsService from spring-security-core don't have method 'createUserDetails()'

Now, my question is do we require to have joining table's domain class created in our application, as the SpringSecurityCore plugin states that it is optional. And if require then is it mandatory to have our custom logic or it's original logic to create domain with that name will work?
Suggestions are welcome...

A: Your app configured to use PersonAuthority class name, but you said that you're using UserRole class. PersonAuthority is a default value from Spring Security Core
Just configure grails.plugins.springsecurity.userLookup.authorityJoinClassName with correct value, like:
grails.plugins.springsecurity.userLookup.authorityJoinClassName='UserRole'


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Q: Why is my Django view decorator not getting the request passed to it? I have a setup looking something like this:
def foo_decorator(function):
    @wraps(function)
    def decorator(*args, **kwargs):
        print kwargs
        return function(*args, **kwargs)

    return decorator

@foo_decorator
def analytics(request, page_id, promotion_id):
    pass

Outputting:
{'promotion_id': u'11','page_id': u'119766481432558'}

Why is my decorator not getting request passed to it?

A: The request is not passed as a keyword argument. It's in args, not kwargs.

A: request isn't a keyword argument to the view, it's the first positional argument. You can access it as args[0].
def foo_decorator(function):
    @wraps(function)
    def decorator(*args, **kwargs):
        print args[0]
        return function(*args, **kwargs)

    return decorator

I would recommend that you change the function signature to include request explicitly:
def foo_decorator(function):
    @wraps(function)
    def decorator(request, *args, **kwargs):
        print request
        return function(request, *args, **kwargs)

    return decorator

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The Gold Finch 2019
"THE GOLDFINCH" TETHERED TO THE LIMITS OF ADAPTATION
A Film Review by Tim Riley
"THE GOLDFINCH" (Rated R) American author Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 for the 784-page coming-of-age novel "The Goldfinch," which I did not have time to read before seeing the movie. What's more, the local bookstore didn't carry the Cliff's Notes version.
How to adapt this massive tome into a film story of grief and shame, guilt and obsession, survival and self-invention was left to Academy Award nominee Peter Straughan (the 2011 dramatic thriller "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy").
The center of "The Goldfinch" is the achingly poignant journey of thirteen-year-old Theo Decker (Oakes Fegley), who last saw his mother as she was gliding away from him into another gallery of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The non-lineal recounting of Theo's anxious passage in life results in the opening scene showing a troubled adult Theo (Ansel Elgort) in a hotel room in Amsterdam facing a personal crisis that suggests his life is on the verge of a possible suicidal ending.
Flashing back to the art museum, young Theo finds his life shattered when a terrorist bomb explodes taking the lives of many visitors, including his mother, while destroying priceless works of art.
For the rest of his life, Theo will be haunted by the traumatic event at the museum, as he and his mom should not have been at the museum that day, resulting in his lifelong feeling of survivor's guilt.
Theo's mother had been called to his school because her son had gotten into some trouble, but they were early and it was raining, so they ducked into the famous New York museum to look at Dutch masterpieces.
Dutch painter Carel Fabritius's "The Goldfinch," portrait of a small bird tethered to its perch on display at the museum, happened to the mother's favorite. Ironically, the painter died in a 1654 gunpowder explosion that also destroyed most of his work.
While Theo's gaze was caught by pretty redheaded Pippa (Aimee Laurence), his life was spared. The horrific blast created a gray moonscape of choking dust, debris and death, and in the rubble was the painting of the chained bird.
With his dying breath, an elderly gentleman named Blackwell urges Theo to take the priceless artwork of the goldfinch and deliver his ring to his partner Hobie (Jeffrey Wright) at an antique store.
In Hobie, Theo finds a lifelong mentor who tutors on the fine art of the restoration and dealing of antiques, leading to the adult Theo's career path that ends up on shaky ground when a slippery art dealer (Denis O'Hare) lodges accusations of forging antiques for sale.
With deadbeat father Larry (Luke Wilson) nowhere in sight, young Theo is placed with the family of one of his school friends, the Barbours, where he forms a bond with Mrs. Barbour (Nicole Kidman), who shares his appreciation of art.
The upper-class Barbour family lives on ritzy Park Avenue, with a patriarch (Boyd Gaines) who seemingly cares only about sailing during the summer months in Maine. On the other hand, the stylish, reserved Mrs. Barbour gradually offers Theo tender affection.
Just when Theo is comfortable in his new home, the estranged dad shows up with his floozy girlfriend Xandra (Sarah Paulson) to take his son to live in a desolate exurb of Las Vegas where surrounding homes are boarded up for foreclosure sales.
Befriended by Russian-born delinquent Boris (Finn Wolfhard), the only boy in the neighborhood, Theo falls into a world of illicit drugs, drinking and smoking, trying to escape a family life marked by his father's careless disregard and flights of anger.
When tragedy strikes, young Theo decides to flee Sin City, after scraping together enough cash to buy a bus ticket back to New York City, where Hobie is sure to provide shelter.
Reaching adulthood, Theo has held on to the stolen painting, keeping it wrapped in newspaper as a metaphorical reminder of his beloved mother. Yet, the artwork is a secret talisman, which both comforts and torments him.
Meanwhile, Theo achieves financial success as an antiques dealer, dressing fashionably and reconnecting with the Barbour family, and then becoming engaged to Kitsey Barbour (Willa Fitzgerald).
Romantic complications arise when Theo realizes he still has feelings for the now adult Pippa (Ashleigh Cummings), but nothing upends his life more than the chance encounter with adult Boris (Aneurin Barnard) and his ties to the criminal underworld.
Even though lacking familiarity with the source material, I would venture to say that the filmmakers were challenged to distill an expansive story with a lot of characters into a compelling narrative that works for a two and a half hours running time.
And yet, for what seems counterintuitive in regards to the abundance of storylines and potential for prolonged character development, "The Goldfinch" is too often lackluster, plodding and aimless.
Devotees of Donna Tartt's opus may be curious to see the silver screen adaptation if for no better reason than to contemplate missed opportunities. All things considered, "The Goldfinch" appears to be tethered to its own cinematic limitations.

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Offbeat developer 5th Cell has seen 3.5 million in lifetime sales for the Drawn to Life series and another 2.5 million for the Scribblenauts series, each of which took roughly a year to develop and only a few dozen team members to create.
Yet in a recent D.I.C.E. Summit talk, company co-founders Jeremiah Slaczka and Joseph Tringali said it wasn�t merely luck that drove these success stories, but a set of guiding principles that help set their company apart.
The first principle: finding a good partner. This means a publisher that does more than paying lip service to talent, and knows that �you have to trust talent when times are tough,� Tringali said.
Completing a project on time often means eliminating pretty documentation, PowerPoint presentations and �everything that�s gonna get in the way of us making a good game,� the pair said.
When deciding on a game concept, 5th Cell decides whether they want to be first to market or best in breed, usually coming down on the side of the former. Just reacting to the latest trend isn�t the way to profiTability, they said.
And once it comes time to implement that concept, it�s important to make sure there�s someone with the ability to implement that vision without getting bogged down when problems threaten to derail the project.


This past March I had the pleasure once again of attending the annual gathering of the Edible Communities publishers, this time in New Orleans. Every Edible is so unique—and there are now more than 80 of us, all across the U.S. and Canada. We each celebrate and explore our regions in what I like to refer to as our "indie" magazines, which focus on the people—farmers, fishers, chefs, vintners, food artisans—who live and work the land. These publications give voice to local food inspirations, trends and challenges, offering rare access to the most influential and interesting food and drink enthusiasts. This in turn allows us to share with our readers the inside scoop—a little immersion into our distinct culinary destinations all over the U.S. and Canada. But also each publisher or editor has unique passion, energy and talent. It's refreshing to listen to stories of the work that goes into pulling a magazine together and to share ideas. One can't help but leave feeling well-nourished and inspired.
A large part of one of the evenings is the EDDY Awards. This is an annual competition with categories where each publisher can submit any work that was published in 2014. Nominees are then judged by a distinguished panel of more than 50 judges including nationally acclaimed chefs, authors, editors, farmers, activists and bloggers. The judges narrow down a huge number of entries to arrive at the finalists. In each category two EDDYs are awarded—Critics' Choice and Readers' Choice—and a finalist may win one or both. We were excited and honored when regular contributor Maria Buteux Reade's "Compost Happens at Someday Farm" was nominated in the Best Story: Gardening category. And we actually won! Both Critics' Choice and Readers' Choice!
A big congratulations also goes to all our accomplished writers and photographers whom I am lucky to work with. We are all passionate about Vermont and our lives here. We are also grateful to our advertisers who support our mission and fire our energy. But also it's our readers who inspire us every day to produce a magazine that I hope we can all be proud of.


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Things to See in Ithaca
The top attraction in town is probably Cornell University, a handsome Ivy League school on 745 acres, which sits high on a hill in so-called "Collegetown," from which it surveys the rest of Ithaca and the splendid stripe of Cayuga Lake that stretches northward. On campus, the top public draw is the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (University Ave.; tel. 607/255-6464; www.museum.cornell.edu; Tues-Sun 10am-5pm; free admission), a modern cement structure designed by I. M. Pei (1973). The museum counts more than 30,000 pieces in its collection, with particular strengths in Asian art (ranging from antiquity to contemporary artists from Japan, China, India, and the Himalayas and Middle East), as well as prints and photographs. The museum hosts interesting traveling exhibitions, but even visitors without strong interests in art shouldn't miss the unsurpassed fifth-floor views of Cayuga Lake and the gentle hillsides surrounding Ithaca. Across the street from the museum is a path that leads down to a suspension bridge over Fall Creek Gorge, one of two beautiful and deep gorges that frame the Cornell campus, and Beebe Lake. The trails around the gorge and lake are popular with sunbathing students who make their way down to the water. Find your way to Ithaca Falls and stand near the cascading falls that rush down tiers of stone 100 feet high and 175 feet wide. The most visible building on campus, McGraw Tower, is known for the Cornell Chimes, an old school tradition played daily by students and alumni (for information about chimes concerts, call tel. 607/255-5330). Cornell campus tours are available by calling tel. 670/254-INFO.
East of Beebe Lake is the university's museum of living plants, Cornell Plantations (1 Plantations Rd., Cornell University; tel. 607/255-2400; www.plantations.cornell.edu; daily 9am-6pm; free admission), a real find and well worth a visit for garden lovers or anyone seeking a bit of solace. The public is welcome to visit the botanical garden, wildflower garden, and Newman Arboretum, which specializes in New York State trees and shrubs, as well as any of the 3,000 acres of natural areas in and around the campus (which contains more than 9 miles of walking trails). Of particular interest are the orderly herb garden with raised theme beds (herbs are grouped according to usage) and a quiet knoll area that contains more than 300 species of rhododendrons. Free "drop-in tours" are offered on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and there are other walks and classes available; check the schedule online for events. Part of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is the Sapsucker Woods Bird Sanctuary (159 Sapsucker Woods Rd., off Rte. 13, Ithaca; tel. 800/843-BIRD; www.birds.cornell.edu; Mon-Thurs 8am-5pm, Fri 8am-4pm, and Sat 10am-4pm; trails open daily; free admission), housed in a fabulous new building within the Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary, home to many different bird species. An observatory, a bird-feeding garden, trails, and a multimedia theater that allows visitors to hear birds in surround sound will appeal to hard-core birders.
Just 7 miles north of Ithaca, in Trumansburg along the west side of Cayuga Lake, is one of the region's most beautiful sights. Tucked in Taughannock Falls State Park (Taughannock Park Rd./Rte. 89 N.; tel. 607/387-6739) is the highest free-falling waterfall in the eastern U.S.; at 215 feet, it is higher even than Niagara Falls. You can drive up to a lookout or hike in from the entrance to the park (the hike is an easy, flat .75-mile walk). The falls are best viewed in spring and fall; in summer there is often very little water and visitors are inevitably disappointed. Summer concerts are held in the park.
Ithaca Festival -- If you're lucky enough to find yourself in Ithaca the first weekend after Memorial Day, you'll stumble upon an event that reveals the community-based soul of this college town, during the lively and friendly annual Ithaca Festival, which has been put on in charming low-key fashion since the late 1970s. The opening parade on Friday is a wacky classic, including adults parading as dancing tofu, kids dressed up like compost piles, and the hilarious Volvo Ballet, complete with tutus wrapped around boxy station wagons. Call tel. 607/273-3646 or visit www.ithacafestival.org for information.
Cayuga Wine Trail
The Cayuga Wine Trail (tel. 800/684-5217; www.cayugawinetrail.com) comprises a grouping of 16 small wineries clustered around Cayuga Lake. As the first wine trail in New York State, it has served as the model for the three other Finger Lakes wine trails. A tour of the wineries on the west side of Cayuga (all but two on the trail) could easily be combined with visits to wineries on the east side of Seneca Lake. Among those welcoming visitors for tours and tastings are (listed in order from south to north on each bank of the lake):
East Bank
Long Point Winery, 1485 Lake Rd., Aurora (tel. 315/364-6990; www.longpointwinery.com), is one of the few Finger Lakes wineries that might make better dry reds -- including merlot, cabernet franc, and Syrah -- than whites. The farmhouse tasting room has great long views of Cayuga Lake (Mon-Thurs 10am-5pm, Fri-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11am-5:30pm; closed Jan).
Lucas Vineyards, 3862 C.R. 150, Interlaken (tel. 800/682-WINE; www.lucasvineyards.com), Cayuga Lake's oldest winery, is a family-owned operation with a farmhouse tasting room and attractively landscaped gardens with great water views. Don't mind some wines' cutesy names ("Miss Behavin'"; "Miss Chevious -- a Nautie white"; Jan-Apr Mon-Sat 10:30am-5pm, Sun noon-5pm; May-Dec Mon-Sat 10:30am-5:30pm, Sun noon-5:30pm).
Sheldrake Point Vineyard & Simply Red Lakeside Bistro ★★, 7448 C.R. 153, Ovid (off Rte. 89) (tel. 866/743-5372 or 607/532-9401; www.sheldrakepoint.com), has one of the more appealing compounds on a mid-19th-century farmstead, with a nice lakeside restaurant serving lunch and dinner (May-Oct) and outdoor seating, a professionally run tasting shop, and handsomely designed labels. I quite like their dry Riesling and cabernet franc (Jan-Mar daily noon-5pm; Apr-Dec daily 11am-5:30pm).
Hosmer Winery, 6999 Rte. 89, Ovid (tel. 607/869-3393; www.hosmerwinery.com), produces some of the finest dry Rieslings in the region. The tasting room and gift shop are the antithesis of slick, but fans of cool-climate whites are in for a treat. Try the Vintner's Reserve Riesling, the award-winning dry and semidry Riesling, and the dry rosé (Apr-Dec Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun noon-5pm; Jan-Mar Fri-Sun noon-4pm, Mon-Thurs by appt.).
Goose Watch Winery, 5480 Rte. 89, Romulus (tel. 315/549-2599; www.goosewatch.com), has a relaxed tasting room in an old barn and excellent views of the lake, a picnic deck, and boat docking -- not to mention an interesting selection of premium wines, including a number of unusual varietals you may never have heard of, like Diamond, Chambourcin, Lemberger, Villard Blanc, Melody, Rosé of Isabella, and Traminette, as well as pinot gris, viognier, and white port (year-round daily 10am-6pm).
Swedish Hill Vineyard, 4565 Rte. 414, Romulus (tel. 888/549-WINE or 315/549-8326; www.swedishhill.com), is a family-owned operation that offers a very large selection of wines, including chardonnay, Riesling, port, and brandy (year-round daily 9am-6pm; guided tours May-Oct weekdays 1 and 3pm, weekends noon, 2, and 4pm).
Especially for Kids
Families will enjoy a visit to Sciencenter, 601 First St. (tel. 607/272-0600; www.sciencenter.org), a hands-on science museum with a walk-in camera, outdoor playground, "piano stairs," and other exhibits that will entertain children. It's open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm, Sunday from noon to 5pm (July-Aug, also Mon 10am-5pm; admission $7 adults, $6 seniors, $5 children 3-17, free for children under 3). The museum's Sagan Planet Walk is an outdoor scale model of the sun and nine planets, built as a memorial to Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan. The walk starts at The Commons in downtown, goes along Willow Avenue and Cayuga Street, and ends at Sciencenter, about 3/4-mile away; kids can get a passport to the solar system stamped at stations along the way and earn free admission to Sciencenter.
The Museum of the Earth (at the Paleontological Research Institution), 1259 Trumansburg Rd. (tel. 607/273-6623; www.museumoftheearth.org), is an 18,000-square-foot interactive exhibit and education facility dedicated to the 3.5-billion-year history of life on Earth. It displays one of the country's largest fossil collections, including the skeleton of the Hyde Park Mastodon and a 500-foot mural, "The Rock of Ages, Sands of Time." It's open Memorial Day to Labor Day, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm and Sun 11am-5pm; the rest of the year, Mon and Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm and Sun 11am-5pm. Admission is $8 for adults and teens, $5 for seniors, and $3 for children 3 to 12 (free for children under 3).
Children will enjoy the opportunity to climb high into the forest canopy on the TreeTops observation tower at The Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd. (Rte. 89; tel. 607/273-6260). The falls, trails, and swimming at Taughannock Falls State Park are also popular with kids of all ages.
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Kuda – według Sumeryjskiej listy królów trzeci władca należący do IV dynastii z Uruk. Dotyczący go fragment brzmi następująco:

"Kuda (z Uruk) panował przez 6 lat".

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Piotr Michalowski, Sumerian King List, [w:] Mark Chavalas (redaktor), The Ancient Near East - Historical Sources in Translation, Blackwell Publishing, Carlton 2006, s. 81-85.
 Jean-Jacques Glassner, Mesopotamian Chronicles, Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta 2004.

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A construction worker was injured in an accident last week in the basement level of the former Deutsche Bank tower, where workers were removing debris. The site is also where two firefighters were killed more than a year ago.
The construction accident happened when the excavator struck the LVI Environmental Services worker and he broke his right leg.
The contractor was cited by the New York City Building Department for failure to provide enough shoring or netting for fall protection.
The accident is the most serious at the site since LVI took over the job cleaning debris and dismantling the building, which was badly damaged on Sept. 11.


Welcome to the Bellview Baptist Church family! We are delighted that you have chosen to visit our website and learn more about who we are and what we are doing in the kingdom of God. Our motto is Reaching In, Reaching Out and Reaching Up. What does this mean?
We are REACHING IN to minister God's Word and His love to our church family through DISCIPLESHIP and FELLOWSHIP. We are REACHING OUT to share God's message of salvation to our community and to the world through MISSIONS and EVANGELISM. We are also REACHING UP to the Lord through our WORSHIP.
If you are looking for a warm and caring family of believers who are seeking to follow Jesus Christ, we invite you to join us for our next scheduled service. You might want to contact us, also. We welcome the opportunity to minister to you in the name of Christ!


It finally happened. I couldn't put it off any longer. I tackled the storage room. We have a storage container that we keep everything that doesn't fit in the shouses, but needs to live somewhere dry. That includes the bulk food storage. I have been putting it off for months, mostly because I have children. Now, don't get me wrong, having children is a wonderful blessing, just not when you are dealing with a storage area that the children are the ones to consistently access. Anyway, as I said, I couldn't put it off any longer.
I headed out to the container at about 9 this morning and dove in - literally. The front access was almost non-existent! I had to wade my way through to the back were the stored foods live. I thought it best to start in the back and work my way forward. My main goal was to inventory all of our stored foods, so that I knew what we had and what we were lacking. First, I cataloged all of the 4 and 5 gallon pails. I noted how many of each food we had, and how full they were. Next, I moved on to the 55 gallon barrels, then to clear storage bins, and finally to #10 tins of dehydrated foods, lard and oil. What a chore!
After I cataloged what we had, I also assessed the damaged caused by rodents on the foods that were not secured in plastic buckets, barrels or tins. Amazingly, we have very little loss, and we quickly cataloged and packaged all of the non-secure foods in 4 gallon pails. We cleared room on our racking and labeled all of the new buckets with a sharpie pen and stacked them neatly on the shelves.
When the foods had been taken care of, we started in on the toiletries and hygiene items. We also put medical and surgery equipment in 4 gallon pails. We found boxes with mantles, globes and wicks for oil and Coleman lanterns and put them in pails. I thought they would be safer in pails than in boxes, which could be damaged or soiled. All in all, we filled about 25 four gallon pails and cataloged about 150 pails and eight 55 gallon barrels.
What an eye-opener today's work was! I saw some huge gaps in our preparedness stores and a few areas that I was satisfied we were well stocked.
We will be spending the next several months really sucking our gut in, so that we are able to purchase all of the essentials we believe we will be needing. We will be trimming in the all areas possible. We are selling everything we believe to be non-essential and bulking up on necessities.
A few immediate concerns for our family are: Yeast, oils, beans, rice, cleaning supplies and detergents, medical/pharmaceuticals & reloading supplies. My plan is to store everything in 4 gallon pails, because they are easy to label and convenient to stack, besides being rodent and water proof.
We are also storing gasoline and white gas (for Coleman lanterns) and kerosene (for oil lamps). I am ordering parts to repair our Diamont Grain Grinder (hand grinder - I use my electric for daily use) and Chris is working on repairing our second power inverter.


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Editorial: Changes could halt gridlock
By Chico Enterprise-Record |
PUBLISHED: March 16, 2011 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 8, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
Our view: Three important developments should mean that political moderates will finally be heard in Sacramento.
As the Legislature stumbles toward a vote on a state budget, the Capitol again seems to be filled with folks who either don"t know the meaning of compromise, or regard it as a dirty word.
It"s a mindset that has contributed to, if not caused, the financial woes the state faces today.
Fortunately, there"s reason to believe it won"t be this way much longer. A perfect storm of change is headed for Sacramento. It"s a convergence of three things: a change in primary elections, a change in the way districts are drawn, and a change in the state, as revealed by the census.
The most important change is that a citizens commission will be drawing Assembly, state Senate and congressional districts, rather than self-serving politicians drawing safe seats for themselves and their parties.
We"re likely to get boundaries that make some sense in terms of what the state really is. They won"t be bastions of Republicans or Democrats, where only party ideologues can really compete, and where anyone who doesn"t toe the party line is subject to organized wrath.
When candidates have to appeal to both parties, we"re likely to get more moderates, and that will be a positive change.
Add into that the change in election law approved by voters that puts the top two vote-getters in a primary into a runoff, regardless of party.
That means even gerrymandered districts aren"t safe. Two members of the same party would be likely to face off in many of those elections. And in those cases, the candidate who appeals most to the other party — the more moderate candidate — has a better chance of succeeding.
And finally, the census data released earlier this month shows a dramatic shift in population to the inland, more grounded areas of the state.
Urban counties didn"t grow anywhere near as fast as the state average and will be losing representation to places … well … places like where people like us live.
For example, San Francisco will lose an Assembly member to the Central Valley. Los Angeles will lose several to its suburbs. These are places with different sets of priorities and a different set of values.
It"s uncertain how that last factor will shake out, but we suspect it will contribute to the change for the better we see coming in Sacramento. And it can"t come too soon.
Chico Enterprise-Record


The demand for IT project managers in Montreal continues to grow, the total number of high-level IT jobs rising to 8,300 in 2017. This is a 4.4% increase over figures from 2016, denoting a growing demand for skilled IT professionals.
IT project manager salaries are not as high as they are in other major Canadian cities. This can likely be attributed to Montreal's lower cost of living among other factors. In spite of this, the position generally still earns a very respectable salary.
IT project managers are already in a leadership role with respect to their position. Developing your skills further and demonstrating your abilities with success will help you advance into even more senior roles with your organization.


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Gender Gaps in Landownership Across and Within Households in Four Asian Countries
Kieran, Caitlin, Kathryn Sproule, Agnes R. Quisumbing, and Cheryl R. Doss. 2017. "Gender Gaps in Landownership Across and Within Households in Four Asian Countries." Land Economics 93 (2): 342-70.
Authors: Caitlin Kieran, Kathryn Sproule, Agnes R. Quisumbing, Cheryl R. Doss
Using nationally representative data from Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam, this paper investigates which individual and household characteristics influence men's and women's landownership across and within households. Often neglected in household-level statistics, married women in all countries are landowners. Across different household structures, women own less land than men, and less land relative to the household average as household landholdings increase. Increasing gender inequality with household wealth cannot be consistently explained by an increasing share of household land devoted to crops. Findings support the need to strengthen women's land rights within marriage and to protect them should the marriage dissolve.
Topics: Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Households, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania Countries: Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Vietnam


I just took an interesting 41-question survey that aims to figure out what event participants value by asking respondents about what types of events they've attended recently, what they found most and least useful about the learning formats and technology used, and several other factors about the event experience. It got me thinking.
It asked me to pick a conference or event I attended in the past year, choose which factors motivated me to participate in that event, say who I went with, and explain what the experience was like in different formats (plenary, interactive breakouts, social and networking events, etc.), as well as what factors made the event feel like a success to me.


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Honey Where Your Mouth Is
by THE CUT OUTS
Label: White Milk Records
Shakes 4:16
Heart Xplode 2:54
Chasers 1:59
Milk It 4:02
According to XFM The Cut Outs are "The missing link between The Strokes, The Ramones, Pat Benatar and Roxy Music".
A fearless threesome of classic guitar, drums and bass, The Cut Outs make real music. Alan Parker (Director) has been quoted to say "If it was 15 years ago and I was still at EMI records, I'd be throwing cheques at these people".
Stevie Watson, Jess Coyne and Damian Horner Pausma who are The Cut Outs will undoubtedly without question make you take notice. A band that captures every part of your being, they make you feel like you've been caressed, punched, loved and blown apart all at the same time.
Honey Where Your Mouth Is, is the long anticipated Debut EP from the London band The Cut Outs.


If you have an E commerce store, chances are you need product descriptions. I will write you fun and colorful descriptions to help your products stand out. Rates are given up request.
Hey, your team gave it their best shot. They created content but something missing. That's where I come and diagnose what's wrong with your piece of copy.
Okay, so your ideal customer/client makes it onto your site, how can you keep him or her on long enough to "BOOK NOW" or "SHOP HERE" ? Great copy, along with a seamless web design are paramount in helping your target audience to stick around for a minute or three.
Professional bios serve as a marketing piece. Your target audience wants to know who you and your team are and what qualifies you to be offering a particular service or product.
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Faculty Profile: Ann Kang
You are here: American University College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Ann Kang
Ann Kang Program Director for Music Department of Performing Arts
CAS - Performing Arts
Katzen Arts Center - 230
Doctor of Musical Arts, Piano, Peabody Conservatory
Master of Music, Piano, Music Theory Pedagogy, Peabody Conservatory
Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, University of California at Berkeley
English, Korean, French, German
Dr. Ann T. Kang is Director of the Music Program. She teaches piano, chamber music, music theory and musicianship. She has been called a pianist of "admirable polish and sensitivity" by the Baltimore Sun. Performance highlights include the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C; Sunset Center in Carmel, California; The Stella Adler School in New York City; The Foundation des Etats-Unis in Paris, France; The St. Nicholas Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine and the Eglise de Corporaux in Fribourg,Switzerland. She received her Doctorate and Master's Degrees in piano (along with a second Master's in music theory pedagogy) from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland. Her primary teachers were Julian Martin and Boris Slutsky, and she also played in masterclasses with Leon Fleisher. She has participated in the Aspen Music Festival, Gijon International Piano Festival (Spain) and the Banff Piano Festival (Canada). She has taught at the Peabody Conservatory and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Dr. Kang attended the University of California at Berkeley, attaining her bachelor's degree in English literature.
In 2008, she was diagnosed with focal dystonia in her right hand, which halted her performing career. Since then, she has focused on teaching and occasionally performing chamber works.
Performing Arts Department
MUS-021 Private Instrument Study: Piano
MUS-121 Private Instrument/Vocal Study: Piano
PERF-045 Chamber Ensembles
PERF-126 Musicianship I
MUS-434 Private Instrument/Vocal Study: Senior Recital, Piano
College Music Society
Pi Kappa Lambda
Inducted in 2005
Presser Award, Presser Foundation
Second Prize, Yale Gordon Piano Competition
Featured soloist of the International Conductors' Festival, Kiev, Ukraine (www.internationalconductorsfestival.org)
Six concerts as pianist and director of the Conservatory Avant-Garde Ensemble (CAGE) at the Peabody Conservatory
Performances at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, and Stella Adler School, NY, with saxophonist Noah Getz
Pre-concert lecturer and guest speaker at Conversations in Music, Canton Symphony Orchestra, Canton, OH


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import React from 'react';

import BaseDialog from "../../../../components/views/dialogs/BaseDialog";
import Spinner from "../../../../components/views/elements/Spinner";
import DialogButtons from "../../../../components/views/elements/DialogButtons";
import dis from "../../../../dispatcher/dispatcher";
import { _t } from '../../../../languageHandler';
import SettingsStore from "../../../../settings/SettingsStore";
import EventIndexPeg from "../../../../indexing/EventIndexPeg";
import { Action } from "../../../../dispatcher/actions";
import { SettingLevel } from "../../../../settings/SettingLevel";

interface IProps {
    onFinished: (success: boolean) => void;
}

interface IState {
    disabling: boolean;
}

/*
 * Allows the user to disable the Event Index.
 */
export default class DisableEventIndexDialog extends React.Component<IProps, IState> {
    constructor(props: IProps) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {
            disabling: false,
        };
    }

    private onDisable = async (): Promise<void> => {
        this.setState({
            disabling: true,
        });

        await SettingsStore.setValue('enableEventIndexing', null, SettingLevel.DEVICE, false);
        await EventIndexPeg.deleteEventIndex();
        this.props.onFinished(true);
        dis.fire(Action.ViewUserSettings);
    };

    public render(): React.ReactNode {
        return (
            <BaseDialog onFinished={this.props.onFinished} title={_t("Are you sure?")}>
                { _t("If disabled, messages from encrypted rooms won't appear in search results.") }
                { this.state.disabling ? <Spinner /> : <div /> }
                <DialogButtons
                    primaryButton={_t('Disable')}
                    onPrimaryButtonClick={this.onDisable}
                    primaryButtonClass="danger"
                    cancelButtonClass="warning"
                    onCancel={this.props.onFinished}
                    disabled={this.state.disabling}
                />
            </BaseDialog>
        );
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: How can i inflate Relative layout I got a task to inflate the XML view. I really don't understand what to do. I
 used a base adapter.
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

    //TODO - Get the current ToDoItem
    final ToDoItem toDoItem =  mItems.get(position);

    //TODO - Inflate the View for this ToDoItem
    // from todo_item.xml.

      RelativeLayout itemLayout =(RelativeLayout)convertView.findViewById(R.id.RelativeLayout1);
     View InflatedView= null;

todo_item.xml looks like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<TextView>
  <!-- some code -->
</TextView>

</RelativeLayout>

I followed something like shown below
RelativeLayout itemLayout =
 (RelativeLayout)convertView.findViewById(R.id.RelativeLayout1);
    LayoutInflater mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(mContext);
    convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.todo_item, parent, false);
    if(convertView==null){
        convertView= new RelativeLayout(mContext);
    }

but this didn't work. I also didn't understand the convertView which is passed to getview method.

A: The ListView API has a few eccentricities.
The convertView parameter given to you in getView() is actually nullable. It's how ListView lets you recycle views as the user scrolls through the list. Because of this, you cannot use it to inflate your RelativeLayout.
To obtain your view, you should first check if convertView is null. If it is, then you need to inflate the View using the parent parameter that's given to you.
RelativeLayout itemLayout;

if (convertView != null) {
  itemLayout = (RelativeLayout) convertView;
} else {
  LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(parent.context);
  itemLayout = (RelativeLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.todo_item, parent, false);
}


Three choirs combined on Thursday night to sing "Go Where I Send Thee" and "There is a Santa Claus."
Some of the boys of Choralaires sing "Go Where I Send Thee." The boys sang "Go Where I Send Thee" in the first act and "There is a Santa Claus" in the second act each night.
Friday night and Saturday afternoon, the Choralaires were the only choir who sang these songs.
Accents performed "Cool Yule" in the first act and "Olaf the Snowman" in the second.
The Accents dance with elementary school students during "Olaf the Snowman."
The Accents worked with elementary school students who joined them during "Olaf the Snowman" on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Students from other choirs also dressed up as Olaf, Sven, Kristof, Elsa and Anna for the performance.
Lauren Wackerly holds the microphone for an elementary school student during "Olaf the Snowman." There were two different soloists per performance of "Olaf the Snowman."
For "Come On Ring Those Bells...With Bells On," and "Hallelu," Accents also performed with Surround Sound and Debtones respectively.
The Surround Sound girls joined the Accents in performing "Come on Ring Those Bells...With Bells On." Surround Sound also performed "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing" in the second act.
Lauren Cochran dances during "Come On Ring Those Bells...With Bells On." While this song was only the Surround Sound girls, the boys joined them in the second act for their second song.
Surround Sound featured Priyanka Thomas as their soloist for "Come On Ring Those Bells...With Bells On" and Alex Armstrong sang a duet with Michelle Poe in "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing."
Debtones performed "Little Drummer Boy," "O Come, All Ye Faithful," "Let it Go" and "California Winter," as well as "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" with CG Singers and Sound System and "Hallelu" with Accents.
Emily Stewart sings during "O Come, All Ye Faithful." The Debtones introduced the second act with this song.
Hannah Fleming performs during "California Winter." Madi McGraw started the song with a solo.
Emily Donica, Emily Ireland, Audrie Thomson and Mikayla Lay perform "California Winter."
Avery Drane, Hannah Fleming and Hannah Richmond also performed as a trio, singing "Santa Baby" in the first act.
Sound System performed "Jingle Bells," "Happy Holidays/It's the Holiday Season," and "Turkey Lurkey Time."
Eli Robinson, Natalie Slauter and Alex Milligan sing "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" to start the show. Robinson, Slauter and Milligan are also in CG Singers.
Grace Kidwell and Zachary McDaniel dance on the risers during "Happy Holidays/It's the Holiday Season" as soloists sing at the microphones closer to the audience.
Chris Buechter, Griffin Smith, Sara Porter and Adrianna Goss sing at the beginning of "Happy Holidays/It's the Holiday Season." "Happy Holidays/It's the Holiday Season" was the end of the first act.
Sydney Hurst and Griffin Smith perform a duet during "Happy Holidays/It's the Holiday Season."
Taylor Ward performs a duet during "Turkey Lurkey Time." Ward was also the "host of the evening," and interacted with the audience between songs.
Sound System also performed "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" with CG Singers and Debtones, and "O Holy Night" with CG Singers.
Alex Harte, Morganne Keller, Sara Porter, Phoebe Nguyen, Bryan Cornelius and Chris Buechter sing during CG Singers' "Silent Night."
There were many trios, duets and solos during the Christmas show, including Carinne Barker, Adrianna Goss and Sara Porter's "What Child is This?"
Hannah Richmond, Hannah Fleming and Avery Drane perform "Santa Baby."
Victor Gichina and Ashlynn King perform "Baby, It's Cold Outside."
Morganne Keller, Alex Milligan and Griffin Smith perform "Let it Snow."
Haley Burgh performs "When You Believe" as a duet with Sarah Anderson.
Ethan Duffy performs in "Tapping Santas" with other tappers who auditioned for the number.
Chris Bauechter also performed "In Summer" as a solo and Laney DeLuna and Taylor Ward performed "Text Me Merry Christmas" while all the choirs joined together at the end of the show to perform "Joy to the World."
See the choirs this weekend at the Madrigal Dinner or during the Pre-Contest Show on January 26, the Showcase of Champions on March 7 or the Spring Spectacular on May 11 or 12.


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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 288 › New York v. Maclay
New York v. Maclay, 288 U.S. 290 (1933)
New York v. Maclay
Argued January 18, 19, 1933
Decided February 6, 1933
Under R.S. § 3466, debts due by an insolvent corporation to the United States have priority over claims of a State for franchise taxes due but not liquidated, although, by the state law, such taxes are a lien in the sense that, when liquidated, they take precedence, by relation, over other intervening claims. Pp. 288 U. S. 289-294.
59 F.2d 979 affirmed.
Certiorari, 287 U.S. 590, to review the affirmance of an order granting priority to the United States in the payment of income taxes and of a claim for damages, over the claim of the New York for franchise and gross earnings taxes, in the liquidation through a receivership of the assets of an insolvent corporation.
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
MR. JUSTICE CARDOZO delivered the opinion of the Court.
The controversy is one between the United States and a state as to priority of payment out of the assets of an insolvent corporation.
Receivers of the corporation were appointed by a consent decree in January, 1927, and creditors were directed to file their claims. The decree had the effect of a general assignment. Price v. United States, 269 U. S. 492, 269 U. S. 502. The United States filed with the receivers a claim for additional taxes in the sum of $33,663.97 due from the insolvent for the years 1917 and 1918, and also a claim for $516.46 expenses incurred in the replacement of a buoy run into by the insolvent's tug. The State of New York filed a claim for franchise taxes due for the years 1921 to 1925, but not assessed or liquidated till after the receivership. It filed another claim afterwards for taxes due for later years. The District Court held that, under § 3466 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.Code, § 191), the debt owing to the United States had a preference over the debt owing to the state in the distribution of the fund. Upon appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the decree was affirmed. 59 F.2d 979. The case is here on certiorari.
The decision of this Court in County of Spokane v. United States, 279 U. S. 80, upheld the power of Congress to give priority to debts due to the people of the United States, though the debts thereby subordinated were due to the people of a state, or its political subdivisions. To
that decision we adhere. The hardship to the state, if there is any, "is the necessary consequence of the supremacy of the laws of the United States on all subjects to which the legislative power of congress extends." Marshall, C.J., in United States v. Fisher, 2 Cranch 358, 6 U. S. 397. Cf. Florida v. Mellon, 273 U. S. 12, 273 U. S. 17.
The tax held to have been subordinated in the Spokane County suit was not a perfected lien upon the property of the insolvent at the date of the receivership. 279 U. S. 279 U.S. 80, 279 U. S. 93-94. The question was reserved whether a different conclusion would have been necessary if such a lien had been proved. 279 U. S. 279 U.S. 95. Certiorari was granted in this case because of the claim of the petitioner that, by the statutes of New York, franchise taxes become liens in advance for the years in which they are due, though the amount is not fixed, and must be liquidated thereafter.
Liens in a sense they unquestionably are, but, we think, not so perfected or specific as to change the rule of distribution. The receivers were appointed, as we have seen, in January, 1927, and the petitioner, if not preferred at the time of the appointment, did not win itself a preference by anything done thereafter. United States v. Oklahoma, 261 U. S. 253, 261 U. S. 260. By the statutes of New York,
"each such tax or fee [including the annual franchise tax to be paid by corporations] shall be a lien and binding upon the real and personal property of the corporation . . . liable to pay the same until the same is paid in full."
N.Y.Tax Law, Consol.Laws, c. 60, § 197. The lien thus created is effective for many purposes, though its amount is undetermined. It is notice to mortgagees or purchasers, who are held to loan or purchase at their own risk if they take their mortgages or deeds before the tax has been assessed or paid. Carey v. Minor C. Keith, Inc., 250 N.Y. 216, 164 N.E. 912; Engelhardt v. Alvino Realty Co., Inc., 248 N.Y. 374, 162 N.E. 287. In that respect, it is similar to the lien of a transfer tax or
duty upon the estate of a decedent. Midurban Realty Co. v. F. Dee & L. Realty Corp, 247 N.Y. 307, 160 N.E. 380; Stock v. Mann, 255 N.Y. 100, 104, 174 N.E. 76. It will even be superior at all events after assessment (N.Y. Terminal Co. v. Gaus, 204 N.Y. 512, 514, 98 N.E. 11), to mortgages already made, and will thus prevail against a purchaser who buys at a foreclosure sale. N.Y. Terminal Co. v. Gaus, supra. Cf. Marshall v. New York, 254 U. S. 380, 254 U. S. 384. All this is settled in New York by reiterated judgments.
The problem here is different. To hold that a lien has progressed to such a point as to be a warning to mortgagees and purchasers of a contingent liability, like a notice of lis pendens, is far from holding that, while the liability is unliquidated and unknown, the lien thus created is perfect and specific. By the terms of the hypothesis, it is nothing of the kind. If the state were to stand upon the warning and omit to ascertain the debt, it would never be able to sell anything, for it would not know how much to sell. Against mortgagees and purchasers, a lien perfected afterwards may take effect by relation as of the date of the inchoate lien through which mortgagees and purchasers became chargeable with notice. The doctrine of relation will not divest the United States of the preference that accrued when receivers were appointed.
In what has been written, there has been an assumption in favor of the petitioner that the tax would have priority if its amount had been liquidated before rights and interests became static through insolvency proceedings. The assumption is hardly to be reconciled with a judgment of this Court pronounced a century and more ago. Thelusson v. Smith, 2 Wheat. 396, 15 U. S. 426. The ruling there was that the general lien of a judgment upon the lands of an insolvent debtor is subordinate to the preference established by the statute, unless seizure by a marshal or some other equivalent act has made the lien specific and brought
about a change of title or possession. Later cases have drawn a distinction between the liens of judgments and of mortgages. These last have been thought to have the effect of a conveyance, divesting the debtor of his title and leaving nothing but an equity to which a preference can attach. Conard v. Atlantic Insurance Co., 1 Pet. 386; Brent v. Bank of Washington, 10 Pet. 596, 35 U. S. 611-612; Savings & Loan Society v. Multnomah County, 169 U. S. 421, 169 U. S. 428. We do not now determine whether the holding in the mortgage cases is to be applied in jurisdictions where a mortgage upon real estate is a lien and nothing more (Trimm v. Marsh, 54 N.Y. 599), nor whether, if so applied, it imports a modification of the holding in the Thelusson case as to the lien of a judgment. Cf. United States v. Canal Bank, 3 Story 79, 81; United States v. Duncan, 4 McLean 607, 630. A mortgage, even though a lien is one much more specific than a judgment or a tax, much closer to ownership. Conard v. Atlantic Insurance Co., supra, pp. 26 U. S. 443. Into these refinements and their consequences there is no need to enter now. Enough for present purposes that the statutory preference must prevail against the lien of a tax not presently enforceable, but serving merely as a caveat of a more perfect lien to come.
The judgment is


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Q: white border around background images? I am editing sipdroid http://code.google.com/p/sipdroid/ and jsut want to change the background to be custom images. By default they are a grey color and teh whole screen is grey, however when i add in the background imagines they have a white border around them, why is this? How can I change it, in styles.xml or somewhere?

bottom is the image name, before i added bototm in tow places the lines read:
android:background="#736f6e"
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    **android:background="@drawable/bottom">
<!--android:background="#736f6e"-->**
    <LinearLayout
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <LinearLayout
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:gravity="left"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            >

            <LinearLayout
                android:orientation="vertical"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:paddingLeft="15dip"
                android:paddingRight="15dip"
                android:paddingTop="15dip">

                <TextView
                    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:textColor="#ffffff"
                    android:typeface="serif"
                    android:textStyle="bold|italic"
                    android:shadowDx="1"
                    android:shadowDy="1"
                    android:shadowRadius="1"
                    android:shadowColor="#aaaaaa"
                    android:textSize="28dip"
                    android:text="@string/app_name"/>

                </LinearLayout>
        </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            android:layout_weight="0"
            android:gravity="right"
            android:paddingTop="10dip"
            android:paddingLeft="10dip"
            android:paddingRight="10dip"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/contacts_button"
                android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_menu_dial_pad"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

        </LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingLeft="5dip"
        android:paddingRight="5dip">

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="vertical"
            android:padding="5dip" >

            <org.sipdroid.sipua.ui.InstantAutoCompleteTextView
                android:id="@+id/txt_callee2"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:hint="@string/hint2"
                android:imeOptions="actionSend"
                android:inputType="phone"
                android:singleLine="true" >

                <requestFocus />
            </org.sipdroid.sipua.ui.InstantAutoCompleteTextView>

            <org.sipdroid.sipua.ui.InstantAutoCompleteTextView
                android:id="@+id/txt_callee"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:hint="@string/hint"
                android:imeOptions="actionSend"
                android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
                android:singleLine="true" />

        </LinearLayout>

    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:background="@drawable/bottom"
        android:gravity="bottom"
        **android:orientation="vertical" >
        <!-- android:background="#736f6e" -->**

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/create_button"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:text="@string/menu_create" />
    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

A: As a long term solution Dymmeh is correct. You should look into RelativeLayouts.
For this question, depending on what your exporting your image out of GIMP as and the size of your image relative to the layer content, it will add a small white margin.
Try making sure all of your layers are equal to the max size of the image and exporting as PNG plain. Check all of the options.


If what goes around comes around, I know the exact reason why I was a dishwasher for such a long time.
I was 16 years old and it was closing time at the Old Country Buffet. Restaurants can be good places to find mentorship, but this was not one of those places. I was young, dumb and working in a restaurant in the mall; my first job.
So we did. And with that, I was cursed to be a dishwasher, for a long time.
I hopped around a bit, too, as a busboy, food runner and line cook, but I always found my way back to dishwashing. I committed simple sins, especially back in Illinois as a teen-ager: stealing beer, smoking weed on shift, and buying drugs off my fellow co-workers.
Nothing too criminal, although one time after completing my ritual of standing on the toilet seat, taking a hit off my one hitter and blowing the smoke into the fan, I cracked the toilet. I didn't realize what I'd done until I came back later and noticed the base of the toilet had a huge crack in it and was leaking. I was so stoned I didn't realize I was actually the one who had broken it! I reported it to my manager, and slowly as I sobered up, I put together the logic.
The manager, who could have had a role in Office Space, ("you wanna see my flair!") launched a full investigation and called the police. So, one morning, I was questioned by the police in my hometown for the case of the cracked toilet. I denied everything. I've never actually confessed this, but I think the statute of limitations has probably run out, and the business has long been gone.
I didn't really have any form of reinvention in mind, but in my heart, I think I just wanted to become a decent human being. Someone who could do a good job, get a paycheck and put the teen-age years me behind me.
It took a couple more years – bouncing from line cook to burrito roller back to dishwasher – until I finally found myself on my way to becoming a decent human being. Gone were the days of petty criminal behavior: I was a climber and a writer, and I called myself the best damned dishwasher this side of the Mississippi.
The reason I came back to dishwashing was that I wanted to avoid the never-ending drama of the food service industry. I had one job and that was to make sure the dishes were clean. I started calling myself the "zen dishwasher" – with good weed and the right tunes, I was unstoppable. I'd do my honest work for an honest wage and go home soaking wet. I didn't care.
Mentorship found me in Crested Butte at a joint called Donita's, which some of you may have heard of. Although Donita was long gone, the place still bared her name.
Tom became my mentor. He was a trained chef who said that French cuisine was the closest to his heart. The fact that he was working at a Tex-Mex place seemed to be a cruel twist of fate. Tom had made some decisions in his life he wasn't proud of, and he was open about it. He had a son he never saw. So maybe he saw something in me; a chance to mold a young man into a better man.
A stoned dishwasher with a college education is an OK thing in your twenties; add another 20 years, and it can be sad. Tom was blunt: find something else, follow your writing and don't end up like me.
Now there's an important distinction to make here: the restaurants I was working in weren't fine dining. They were tourist traps. And I didn't go to culinary school. I was just biding time, working for a few months while I lived in a tent, so I could save money and go somewhere else and live in a tent there. Anthony Bourdain I was not.
Last year, I finally left the food industry. Before leaving, I had another important mentor here in Durango: Tim, the owner of Zia Taqueria. I worked at Zia's for six years and did all the jobs from dishwasher to prep cook to manager on duty. I got to know the Durango community well, and can probably remember what you ordered if you were a regular. Like Tom, Tim knew my dreams and aspirations in the writing world and challenged me to turn those visions into reality.
It's unfathomable how many dishes I scrubbed over the years. There were some dark times – working at a vegan joint in Salt Lake City one winter while living in a basement without heat – and it was hard getting dates with the many beautiful waitresses I've worked with over the years. There's just something about a man covered in wet, food slop that interferes with the pheromones. Luckily, I ended up with a former waitress anyway, the love of my life, who I'm thankful didn't meet me in the stoned haze that was my twenties.
There are things we do when we're young that don't make a bit of sense to our adult selves. I was a reckless kid, who luckily had good parents and eventually found a way to be surrounded by good people. And a lot of that journey happened washing the dishes of America, with more than one misstep along the way.
Luke Mehall is the author of American Climber and the publisher of The Climbing Zine. His fifth book, The Desert, will be released in December. More of his work can be read at climbingzine.com. He can be contacted at luke@climbingzine.com.


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Home BREAKING NEWS Sher Mohammed Rajput Receives Recognition From Two Organizations
Sher Mohammed Rajput Receives Recognition From Two Organizations
Sher Mohammed Rajput, co-founder and trustee of Indo American Center, Chicago, and trustee of East West University, Chicago, second from left, is seen receiving the Community Service Award from India's Consul General in Chicago Neeta Bhushan, Also in photo are Dr Nakedar, convenor of the American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin, AFMI, at the recednt Chicago AFMI Convention, and AFMI's incoming President Dr Kutb Uddin Ahmed.
Sher Mohammed Rajput, a community activist living in Chicagoland, was recently honored by two organizations at their annual galas – the American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin (AFMI), and the Indo American Center (IAC).
Both honored him for his Life-Time Service to benefit the Chicago community as well as community-based organizations over more than 30 years.
Rajput has been the Trustee of the Indo American Center, and is credited with bringing community support to the center at the time when government support ran dry.
The AFMI, which held its 25th Year Annual Convention in Chicago, also recognized Rajput's assistance in putting the event together.
Rajput has worked to build links between different faiths in Chicagoland, according to a press release. Originally from Bikaner, Rajasthan, he was recognized by the Maharajah Dungar Singh College which presented him with the Best NRI Natives Award.
In the past, Chicago's Geetha Mandalam, a Hindu religious organization, presented him an Outstanding Community Service Award, the press release said. He is a founding member of the board of trustees of East West University, Chicago, and Indo American Center, Chicago.
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This is an excellent documentary about the Jesuits. As with any documentary of this vast scope, there may be areas where your expertise might lead you to different conclusions; however, the overall explanation of the Jesuit control of the world is comprehensive.
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Often, live sound environments are dimly lit and offer poor visibility to the mixing engineer. Live 802 solves this problem by colour coding each section of the mixer and providing brightly colored knobs so you can quickly and easily find what you need to adjust. Blue, green, red, yellow and white pots are instantly easy to identify in low lighting. LED indicators for output level, peak, and phantom power also assist in making sure that you have multiple visual cues that reflect everything you're hearing.


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This is my second doll from this shop, he's gorgeous! I love him! It's such a pleasure to do business with Elma, I ordered him and he was ready the exact date she said he would be then arrived at my door 4 days later. I will be back to buy more dolls soon!


The Bee Awareness Society is gearing up for another busy year of installing observation bee hives in Kootenay Region schools. This year will be the Society's fifth year of activity.
The Society's mission is to install the observation honey bee hives and then to provide age appropriate learning activities for the students to teach them about honey bees, their life cycles, and how they impact human food sources, and agriculture. The lessons also include how other native pollinators from bees, butterflies, and moths, to hummingbirds and bats are also involved in the process of pollinating plants. In addition students are shown how they can help pollinators by planting pollinator friendly plants in their home gardens to encouraging their parents to restrict their use of chemical herbicides and insecticides. The hives have glass panels so the children can watch the bees safely and a connecting tube through a window so the bees can safely enter and exit the hive.
If you would like to donate funds or in kind materials to the society, you can also contact them at the link above.


How does the weighted blanket work? Is a weighted blanket useful? The answer is yes, weighted blankets help solve problems such as sleep disorders, anxiety, ADHD and autism.
A weighted blanket is a specific blanket that grey anxiety blanketis designed to be heavier than a regular blanket. They can come in a variety of weights and sizes. They are also made differently by different companies.
Depending on your needs, you'll want to get a weighted blanket that suits you. We cover more on how to find the right weighted blanket at the end of the article.
While you may not have ever used a weighted blanket, there's a chance you have already noticed the benefits of what a weighted blanket can do. By this, I mean that often times people will put a lot of blankets on themselves to get a designed "heavy" feeling. Also, even a big hug has similar effects to what weighted blankets can do.
There is an underlying science behind weighted blankets. It's called Deep Touch Pressure or DTP.
DTP is simply gentle, distributed pressure on the body. It can be accomplished throughweighted blankets, weighted compression vests,weighted lap pads or stuffed animals, massages, or even hugs!
Here are a couple science-backed benefits of DTP.
One of the reasons why DTP works is because it has been shown to increase serotonin in the body.Serotonin is a chemical in the body that works in conjunction with other hormones to decrease blood pressure, heart rate, anxiety, and regulate mood. This ultimately hasa calming effect on the body.
In addition to increasing serotonin levels, DTP has also been found to reduce cortisol levels in the body. Cortisol is a hormone which regulates stress responses in the body. High levels of cortisol are associated with high levels of stress and the use of a weighted blanket can actually decrease these stress hormones in the body. This can lead to an improved mood, more efficient sleep, and feeling better physically.
On top of that, weighted blankets have specifically been shown to decrease the activity in the nervous system.This is due to the effects on the vagus nerve, which is involved in regulating heart rate and blood pressure. One study found this when studying people who have anxiety in the dentist office.
Anotherstudy found that physiologically, 33% of people using a weighted blanket had decreases in their nervous system activity,such as pulse rate and blood pressure, while 63% reported having lower anxiety. Overall, 78% of people in the study preferred the weighted blanket as a tool to relieve anxiety.
Astudy that looked at DTP through the use of a weighted vest found that using the weighted vest "for even short periods of time reduced sympathetic arousal and non–stimulus-driven electrical occurrences." This basically means that their body had physiological changes as it calmed down because of the weighted blanket.
Weighted vests for anxiety are also gaining in popularity, as it's a version of a weighted blanket that you can use on the go.
Often times, sleeping will be a major problem for those that suffer from anxiety. This can come from not being able to calm down as well as not being able to slow down the running thoughts in one's head.One study foundthat people who used weighted blankets have calmer nights of sleep, with a reduction of movement.
The participants noted that they felt that they experienced more comfortable and deeper sleep.
Again, this is due to increased serotonin levels. Serotonin is linked to melatonin, which is the chemical in the body that regulates our sleep/wake signals. When serotonin levels are optimal, this signals melatonin to do its job, which is managing sleep patterns.
It doesn't really matter where you're anxiety arises from, it appears that a weighted blanket could help you reduce it and get better sleep. Whether it's autism,restless leg syndrome, PTSD, OCD, or bipolar, using DTP to increase serotonin can have a very positive effect on those health conditions.
The CDC now estimates that 1 in every 68 children is born with some form of autism. They may struggle with communication, or repeating certain behaviors. They may get upset when there is a change in routine, or have a hard time in social situations.
For children with autism, filtering sensory input is challenging. This is because there is a malfunction in one of their senses. The nervous system sends an abnormal number of neural signals to the brain.
Because the brain has a hard time organizing sensory information, it does not receive the correct information from the senses. This makes your child's brain and body feel unsafe, and survival mode kicks in. However, many children with autism lack the tools to soothe this "fight or flight" response on their own.
This is where a weighted blanket can be useful.
The added weighted of the blanket immediately calms the nervous system. This proprioceptive input also has an organizing effect on the brain. These combined effects provide your child with the tools they need to self-soothe before or during a meltdown.
An overwhelmed nervous system causes sensory meltdowns. Sensory input, like cuddling and Deep Pressure Therapy, calms the body's "fight or flight" response. Weighted blankets make your child feel safe, soothing their overly stimulated senses.
Children with autism have a hard time transitioning from high to low energy activities. This is especially noticeable when they come home from school, need to start homework, or before bed time. The calming effect from the blanket gives your child the chance to settle down before starting a new activity.
For many children with autism, falling asleep at night can be a challenge.
In a 2015 study published in the Journal of Sleep Medicine & Disorders, researchers found that sleep time increased during weighted blanket use. Participants also found it easier to fall asleep, and woke up more refreshed in the morning.
The body's internal clock is controlled by a hormone called melatonin. Weighted blankets increase melatonin production, making it easier to fall asleep at night.
When your child lays under the weighted blanket, the fabric puts pressure on their sensory receptors. This proprioceptive input benefits your child by allowing them to feel their body's movements. They can sense when their arm is outstretched or when their knee is bent. This sensory information gives your child a better understanding of their body's location.
Weighted blankets also have a positive effect on the hormone levels. Researchers found that compressing the body's sensory receptors actually increases "happy" serotonin levels by 28% percent. They also found that the stress hormone, cortisol, decreased by 31%.
Deep Pressure Therapy has an organizational effect on the brain. This effect reduces unwanted sensory seeking behaviors, such as fidgeting. Without these unwanted behaviors, your child is able to sit and focus in class.
Many times, children with autism cannot handle the physical touch of even a loved one. This lack of physical touch can causes many developmental problems. Weighted blankets imitate the feeling of a firm hug. This gives your child the feeling that they are safe and secure, while promoting brain development.
Here is the story of a weighted blanket user who tells the story of his daughter using a weighted blanket.
My daughter, who has ADHD and anxiety, has difficulty controlling her anger. We recently received a weighted blanket, which she has learned to use to calm herself down.
The other day, my daughter, Natalie, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, and sensory processing disorder (SPD), was playing on her trampoline with her friend Harry (who also has ADHD) in our backyard when something happened that typically would have triggered an angry outburst sent her running to her new therapeutic tool, a weighted blanket.
Nat and Harry love each other — and fight with each other — just like siblings. That day Harry was saying something about what girls can do versus what boys can do — over and over. Natalie was getting mad, and of course, he didn't stop when she asked him to.
Natalie crawled over to the edge of the trampoline, growling like a rabid dog, jumped down, and ran into the house. When I checked on her a minute later, I found her on the couch, covered by her new weighted blanket, the Magic Blanket. She knew it would help her to calm down.
Natalie's Magic Blanket is a weighted blanket from the now-defunct Bean Blanket Company, designed for her height and weight. Weighted blankets are a tool occupational therapists (OTs) often recommend for kids with ADHD, SPD, and autism spectrum disorders to help with calming. The weight is intended to provide proprioceptive input to the brain, which has a calming and organizing effect on the central nervous system.
I learned several years ago that deep pressure from weight does help Natalie to calm down. One of the most effective techniques to help her regain control during an aggressive outburst is to have her lie on the carpet, put a pillow or chair cushion on top of her, and apply some of my body weight. Our OT did something similar with Nat during therapy sessions — squished her between two beanbag chairs.
After having some success with using deep pressure, we borrowed a weighted blanket (not made by the Original Bean Blanket Company) from Harry so that Natalie could try it. It didn't seem heavy enough to me to be helpful, and after the newness wore off, we found that it wasn't, and we gave it back.
But her Magic Blanket is different — it weighs a whopping 16 pounds, with the weight evenly distributed throughout. And the pink chenille fabric is a sensory-delight for exposed skin and fingers — fluffy and soft, with chenille's traditional supple bumps.
In her anger at Harry, Natalie had turned to her Magic Blanket as a calming tool, and it clearly was helping. Before long Harry came inside to find her. Next thing I knew they were both on the couch, backs against opposite ends of the couch, legs extended. They were both under the Magic Blanket, watching TV calmly.
This brand of weighted blanket — the Magic Blanket — is a keeper! The company no longer exists, unfortunately, but some of their products are still available on Amazon.


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How to get catalogID for a plugin furniture?
I'm a new developer for Sweet Home 3D. I'd like to create my customized furniture and then pulgin into the Sweet Home 3D furniture list. Now I can create a customized furniture library with FurnitureLibraryEditor and Import it into the Sweet Home 3D furniture list. My question is that how can I get the CatalogID or any category-related information of the imported furniture via the getCatalogID() or getDescription() function or any other functions in the PieceOfFurniture API?
Re: How to get catalogID for a plugin furniture?
If you have the catalog ID of a piece of furniture added to a home, you can find the matching piece in the furniture catalog, using preferences getFurnitureCatalog method. It contains all the methods needed to list furniture categories and the CatalogPieceOfFurniture instances it contains (with their IDs).


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Like father, like son: Bonita man, son racing 300 miles across Southwest Florida, the Everglades
Mark Cecil and his son, Maxfield Seixas, will attempt to paddle from Tampa Bay to the Florida Keys for a second time starting Saturday.
Like father, like son: Bonita man, son racing 300 miles across Southwest Florida, the Everglades Mark Cecil and his son, Maxfield Seixas, will attempt to paddle from Tampa Bay to the Florida Keys for a second time starting Saturday. Check out this story on news-press.com: https://www.news-press.com/story/news/2019/03/01/father-son-everglades-challenge-300-mile-race-tampa-keys/2993940002/
Chad Gillis, Fort Myers News-Press Published 3:20 p.m. ET March 1, 2019 | Updated 3:56 p.m. ET March 1, 2019
Mark Cecil runs his hands along a bungee cord he recently fastened to the bottom of his faded white 21-foot tandem kayak in his backyard in Bonita Springs.
The bungee cord will keep his drinking water in place in case he and his 19-year-old son, Maxfield Seixas, capsize the boat during a small boat adventure race that starts Saturday in Tampa Bay and ends eight days later in the Florida Keys.
"This will be home for four to eight days, depending on the wind," Cecil said. "We've capsized it twice, both times in big surf. And it's just a yard sale when it happens. But both times were in training, not in a race. And both times we were pushing it to see if we could even do it or not."
Cecil runs a software company while Seixas is a freshman at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Maxfield Seixas, 19, and his father, Mark Cecil, of Bonita Springs, will paddle their tandem kayak 300 miles from Tampa to Key Largo starting Saturday. (Photo: Kinfay Moroti / The News-Press USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA)
Dad is taking time away from his business and Seixas will be on spring break next week.
The race is called the WaterTribe Everglades Challenge and is about 300 miles in length, depending on the course.
This will be Cecil's third trip and the second with his son.
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Last year, the adventurous duo finished at 11:59 p.m. on a Thursday after a challenging sprint across Florida Bay with tailing winds and waves.
With about two miles to go, the GPS said they would arrive at the beach at 12:09 a.m. on that Friday.
"I thought, wait a minute, that's Friday," Cecil said while going through gear in his living room. "'Let's finish Thursday.' We were going 8, 9 miles per hour with tail winds and the sail is dragging in the water off the boat and I'm doing the karate grunt with each stroke. Digging, digging, digging.
"We hit the beach and hit the (GPS) button and it was 11:59. So we'd made it, but I look around and we were on the wrong beach. We were 75 yards away."
Cecil got a hernia for his efforts, and the duo ended up in a private marina that had closed its gates.
Maxfield Seixas, 19, relaxes in his Bonita Springs home on Thursday while preparing for a 300-mile kayak trip from Tampa to Key Largo. Seixas is taking the journey with his father, Mark Cecil. (Photo: Kinfay Moroti / The News-Press USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA)
There was no way for them to get to the actual finish line, which was less than a football field away.
"I stuck Max into the men's room of the marina and I called a lawyer and said, 'Do I need to call the police?' and he said, 'Well, you're in an emergency, the captain of a ship, you've taken safe harbor, you're in good shape.' So I spent the night by the boat and we took off in the morning."
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In preparation for the race, what would typically be a large living room has been turned into a captains headquarters – with dry bags full of gear, sandwich bags full of trail mix and granola, neoprene skirts that keep them from taking on water while paddling and diving boots to protect their feet from the rough shorelines and oyster bars scattered on the wooden floor.
"The house has been ransacked by a bunch of crazy pirate mariners," wife Jenny Cecil joked while helping pack food for the trip.
On the water, Seixas will sit in the back and steer while Cecil sits up front and provides much of the power needed to move hundreds of pounds of paddlers and gear along the Gulf of Mexico and through bays and across rivers.
Mornings are enjoyable.
"The most glorious meal of the day is breakfast because we're at a beach somewhere and we have two bowls of oatmeal, maybe a banana and a cup of coffee," Cecil said.
By the end of the day, it's a different story.
Mark Cecil relaxes in his Bonita Springs home on Thursday while preparing for a 300-mile kayak trip from Tampa to Key Largo. Cecil is taking the journey with his son, Maxfield Seixas, 19. (Photo: Kinfay Moroti / The News-Press USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA)
"You're so zonked, you don't care," Cecil said. "You just want to sleep."
Forty miles is a bad day. Seventy miles is better.
"This is not a rookie thing to do," he said. "You need to feel comfortable on the water in a boat like that and you need to be super comfortable with camping.
"You burn like 10,000 calories a day and there's no way you can possibly replenish that," he continued. "I ended up with a case of diaper rash that was so bad that the physicians said, 'You're right, that is a bad case of diaper rash.'"
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They'll race past all types of shorelines, from condo-lined and sea walls to the deep Everglades.
"Once you start moving in the Everglades, there's not a place to pull over," Cecil said. "If you're going to pull over you have to go back where you were. With mangroves you can't get out and if you do get out you can sink up to your waist in mud."
Jennifer Cecil prepares food packages on Thursday for a 300-mile kayak trip her husband Mark and stepson Maxfield Seixas are taking from Tampa to Key Largo. (Photo: Kinfay Moroti / The News-Press USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA)
Seixas said the race is really about the mind and fighting off hallucinations while at the brink of exhaustion.
"You think it's more taxing on your body pushing 60 miles a day but at the end of the day you find out your body can keep working but your mind is just kind of shot," Seixas said. "It's more of a mind game: We could just quit right here and get a hotel and take a bath, or, we could paddle another 150 miles just for the fun of it."
Cecil described the race as an adventure. He plans to race around the entire state of Florida next year.
But this year he's happy to be paddling 300 miles or so with his son again.
"The best guys doing this will do it in two to three days and they won't sleep," Cecil said.
They hope to beat last year's time by about 30 hours.
"We're hoping to finish around dusk Wednesday night, but this year no hernias," Cecil said.
Then he thought about the injury more. Maybe it was worth it.
"We did finish Thursday," he said with a grin.
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Sarah Pierce is a new stay at home mom struggling with the solitude of her new role. Spending every moment with a three year old tests the patience of the one-time English scholar. One day, at a local playground, she interacts with a group of moms and the differences are clear. They embrace motherho...
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Stay-at-home mothers > Drama.
Child molesters > Drama.
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Sarah Pierce is a new stay at home mom struggling with the solitude of her new role. Spending every moment with a three year old tests the patience of the one-time English scholar. One day, at a local playground, she interacts with a group of moms and the differences are clear. They embrace motherhood and seem to relish all that their new role brings. One day, Brad, a stay at home dad brings his son to the playground. Sarah is amazed to find these mom have never talked to Brad and one of the women bets Sarah five dollars that she won't get his phone number. Sarah not only gets his phone number, but she lets him in on the joke and they hug and kiss. Emasculated by his wife, Kathy, Brad becomes slightly obsessed with finding ways to demonstrate he can still produce testosterone. Soon, Sarah and Brad start a passionate affair. At the same time, their quiet suburban community deals with Ronnie, a convicted pedophile who has just been released from prison. He returns to his mother's home and she helps him endure the constant taunts of an overzealous neighbor. These lives intersect in surprising and potentially dangerous ways.
Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta.
1 videodisc (approximately 137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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MPAA rating: R; for strong sexuality and nudity, language and some disturbing content.
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Director of photography, Antonio Calvache ; production designer, David Gropman ; film editor, Leo Trombetta ; music, Thomas Newman.
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